Nothing tastes better than what one eats by oneself.

One gift the fairies gave me... the love of books, the magic key that opens the enchanted door.

What children do love is ghost stories.

The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the good that one possibly can.

Indeed it is impossible to set limits to such coincidence, for it would indeed be extraordinary if extraordinary coincidences never occurred.

She believes that I love her!” cried the King. “What a fatal mistake! What is to be done to undeceive her?” “You know best,” answered the Mermaid, smiling kindly at him. “When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, they don’t need advice from anyone else.

My dear Prince, might I beg you to move a little more that way, for your nose casts such a shadow that I really cannot see what I have on my plate.

But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. They always begin with a little boy or girl who goes out and meets the fairies of polyanthuses and gardenias and apple blossoms: ‘Flowers and fruits, and other winged things.’ These fairies try to be funny, and fail; or they try to preach, and succeed.

Life’s more amusing than we thought.

I don’t think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.